Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book
Date: 1882
Compiler: Fillmore Brothers
Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers
First Line: 'Tis heaven begun below
Topic: Church/Zion
Writer: Joseph Swain
Composer: A Williams
Meter: SPM
Tune: Dalston
Hymn Number: 347
Page Number: 116, click to see hymnal pages
Lyics'Tis heaven begun below
To hear Christ's praises flow
In Zion, where his name is known.
What will it be above
To sing redeeming love,
And cast our crowns before his throne!
O what sweet company
We then shall hear and see!
What harmony will there abound,
When souls unnumbered sing
The praise of Zion's King,
Nor one dissenting voice be found!
Till that blest period come,
Zion shall be our home;
And may we never thence remove,
Till from the Church below
To that on high we go,
And there commune in perfect love.